Cicada ManiaJoe Green sent me a couple of CDs worth of North American cicadas calling and has graciously allowed us to use them for the site. The highlight of these videos is that they feature cicada calls.
I have to add descriptions, and about 50 more videos, but for now check out what’s uploaded so far.
Here’s a sample:
Neocicada hieroglyphica singing by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Joe Green mailed us some new cicada photos.
Looks like a Neocicada hieroglyphica.
Listen to this video of a Neocicada hieroglyphica pre-call by Joe Green.
N. hieroglyphica pre-call by Joe Green from Cicada Mania on Vimeo.
Thanks to Cicada Mania friend Joe Green we now have 3 new cicada galleries featuring cicadas we didn’t have before one the site: Neocicada hieroglyphica, Diceroprocta olympusa and Megatibicen resonans.
This is a Neocicada hieroglyphica:
Hang in there, we’ll be back to the 17 Year Cicadas tomorrow.
Here’s a pleasant interruption in the 17-year cicada mania. Joe Green has sent us some cicada photos from Florida. These are from last years season.
Joe says the Neocicada hiroglyphica cicadas have been singing in Florida since April 29th.
Carol W. took this wonderful photo of a Tibicen (it is a Tibicen linnei) in Lexington KY on the 4th of July (took me 81 days to post it).
Anyone familar with the term “August Dry Birds”? William M wrote to say to he knew a farmer in Vermont who called cicadas that. I’ve heard of “locusts” and “harvest fly” before, but “August Dry Birds” is new to me.
Some news article found by Roy:
Cicadas’ summer song hits high-volume pitch.
I went hiking last weekend in New Jersey’s Atlantic Highlands (yes, New Jersey has trees and wildlife) and I heard plenty of Tibicen cicadas, but I think we’re close to the end of the season. Anyone else still hearing Tibicens?
